TEL Venture Capital (TVC), the corporate venturing unit of Japan-based semiconductor and display equipment maker Tokyo Electron, appointed Keiichi ”Kay” Enjoji, as its president in July 2011. He is also a director for managing alliance programs with venture companies and the M&A activity of Tokyo Electron (TEL), which last year saw its planned merger with US-based peer Applied Materials fall through on regulatory concerns.
Enjoji manages a team of 10 making strategic investments for TEL. Its 19 investments, such as Alberta Nano-Monitoring Systems, Particle-Monitoring Technologies and OPT Creation, cover a range of innovative technologies from those impacting TEL’s core semiconductor and advanced display, to photonics and optics, sensors, and life sciences, healthcare and medical electronics.
Enjoji is on the boards as director or observer of the companies above, as well as Liola Technologies, Genalyte, Crystal Solar, Quantum14 and SBA Materials.
He said there had also been eight exits for TVC and, as of this month. “Four new commercial products of TEL have been developed as a result of strategic investments.”
He was previously a director of Tokyo Electron’s microelectromechanical systems division, and he has worked within the Japanese corporation for more than 25 years. Enjoji received an economics degree from Keio University.